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2:45 PM ET, June 25, 2017

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Norm Ornstein / The Atlantic:
The Kabuki Theater of the AHCA  —  The United States has never had a Senate leader as ruthless, as willing to bend, distort and break the rules, traditions and precedents of the Senate as Mitch McConnell.  And the Senate has probably never had a majority leader as effective at accomplishing …
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Senate health-care bill faces serious resistance from GOP moderates  —  A small group of moderate Republican senators, worried that their leaders' health-care bill could damage the nation's social safety net, may pose at least as significant an obstacle to the measure's passage as their colleagues on the right.
Discussion: Balkinization
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Health Law Repeal Leaves Nevada Republican Torn Between Lawmakers
Josh Delk / The Hill:
Koch political leader says GOP healthcare bill not conservative enough  —  Leaders in the Koch brothers' influential political network bashed the new Senate Republican health care legislation attempting to replace the ObamaCare for not being conservative enough, The Associated Press reports.
Discussion: ABC News and The Week
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Freedom Caucus holds fire on Senate Obamacare repeal bill  —  The most hard-line conservatives in the House are taking an unusually cautious approach to the Senate's Obamacare replacement, promising to keep an open mind about whatever their colleagues across the Capitol send back.
Discussion: The Week and New York Times
Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
Kellyanne Conway on Senate health bill: ‘These are not cuts to Medicaid’  —  Presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway asserted Sunday that the Senate health care bill does not propose cuts to Medicaid, despite projections that it would cut the federal health insurance program by $800 billion.
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
Koch network withholding support of Senate health-care bill, pushing for changes
Discussion: Political Wire
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Koch network ramps up political spending while trying to push Trump team
Discussion: ABC News
Jordan Rau / New York Times:
Medicaid Cuts May Force Retirees Out of Nursing Homes  —  ORANGE, Va. — Alice Jacobs, 90, once owned a factory and horses.  She has raised four children and buried two husbands.  —  But years in an assisted living center drained her savings, and now she relies on Medicaid to pay for her care …
Julian Assange / TwitLonger:
TwitLonger  —  Why the Democratic party is doomed:  —  1. The Democratic establishment has vortexed the party's narrative energy into hysteria about Russia (a state with a lower GDP than South Korea).  It is starkly obvious that were it not for this hysteria insurgent narratives …
Discussion: RT, TheBlaze and The Gateway Pundit
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Democrats are fielding a glut of House candidates in 2018 but remain divided on how to win  —  DALLAS — The largest number of Democratic congressional candidates in decades are putting into play dozens of House districts across the country, raising the possibility of a bitterly contested …
USA Today:
Woman suspected of setting Iowa mosque on fire … Police in Iowa arrested a 22-year-old woman suspected of starting a small fire at an Iowa mosque Thursday morning.  —  Des Moines firefighters and police were called to the Islamic Center of Des Moines about 10 a.m. There had been a small fire …
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Kelly Maricle / WHOTV:
Woman Charged with Arson in Fire at Des Moines Mosque
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 6-25-17: Kellyanne Conway, Sen. Chuck Schumer, Sen. Susan Collins, and Sen. Rand Paul  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT FOR ‘THIS WEEK’ on June 25, 2017 and it will be updated.  —  GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, ABC HOST: Now for the Democratic response, we're joined by the Senate Democratic Leader, Chuck Schumer.
Discussion: Politico and The Week
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Patrick Temple-West / Politico:
Price invites GOP foes of Obamacare overhaul to keep talking
Discussion: RedState
Associated Press:
Trump: Not ‘that far off’ from passing health overhaul
Discussion: Politico and The Week
Paul Sperry / New York Post:
Sketchy firm behind Trump dossier is stalling investigators  —  A secretive Washington firm that commissioned the dubious intelligence dossier on Donald Trump is stonewalling congressional investigators trying to learn more about its connections to the Democratic Party.
Michael Kruse / Politico:
I Found Trump's Diary—Hiding in Plain Sight  —  Lots of people want President Donald Trump to stop tweeting.  Mitch McConnell wants him to stop tweeting.  Carly Fiorina wants him to stop tweeting.  Lindsey Graham and Susan Collins and other Republican members of Congress and some Democrats …
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Donald Skunks the Democrats  —  WASHINGTON — YOU know who is really sick and tired of Donald Trump winning, to the point where they beg, “Please, Mr. President, sir, it's too much”?  —  Democrats.  —  The Democrats just got skunked four to nothing in races they excitedly thought …
 
 
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ACLU:
New TSA Policy May Lead to Increased Scrutiny of Reading Material
Discussion: The Hill
Eli Watkins / CNN:
Tom Price promises GOP won't pull ‘rug out’ on health care
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Intern / FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV:
Restaurant owner says nearby Confederate flag is hurting his business
Discussion: The Root and Raw Story
Jerome Hudson / Breitbart:
Black Unemployment at Lowest Level in 17 Years
ABC News:
Donald Trump promises to ‘repeal and replace’ Obamacare
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Is Going Hollywood, Seeking Scripted TV Programming
Bruce Bialosky / Townhall.com:
Congress Needs to Forget Trump and His Tweets and Pass the Big Bills
Brad Wilmouth / newsbusters.org/feed/all:
On CNN, Montel Williams: GOP Would Send 140 Million to ‘Death’ With Health Plan
Discussion: Daily Kos
 Earlier Items: 
William D. Cohan / Vanity Fair:
The Untold Story of How Gary Cohn Fell for Donald Trump
Discussion: Axios
John Hayward / Breitbart:
Islamic State Poster Shows Car Crushing Skulls: ‘Run Over Them Without Mercy’
Michael Hechtman / New York Post:
100-year-old crime boss beats the odds, is released from prison
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Business Insider:
Evidence is mounting that Russia took 4 clear paths to meddle in the US election
Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Schumer: ‘Unseemly’ to confirm Gorsuch amid FBI probe of Trump campaign
Jeff Brady / NPR:
Some U.S. States Relax Restrictions On Cladding Suspected In Grenfell Tower Fire
 

 
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